Dragfreak

Thank you Carl, I got another update coming a little bit later, the battery kill switch and the start of ignition wiring

And that's why you just race at the track where it's almost completely safe, with the safety equipment today, there's a small chance of severe injury or death in the average bracket cars that race at the dragstrip. Btw I can't stand F&F the stupidity is so high I can't watch one without not picking every unrealistic scene. But I guess most teens don't really know what I do...

It's not really a big deal or much to show or care about but I scratch built a parachute mount today

I think whatever you decide it will look very good

That's sad, if people are going to street race, they need to find a nice wide road with plenty of shoulder where there is almost no traffic to do it

Thanks, I painted this outside and although it looks pretty good, there's a few places where it isn't exactly perfect but I'm happy with it Thank you Ron, it's coming along nicely, I understand it isn't real high quality like most drag builds here but I think it will look alright when it's done. In still waiting for the day when I actually build a high quality model

Yes the driver was okay, it wasn't as bad as it appears, he hopped out just fine. It was cool to watch but I do feel bad for that guy knowing how much work he went through to restore the original car from 1974 to update it and put it back on the track to lose everything. This is the danger in the sport I love, drag racing is unpredictable but that's the part that makes it fun

I love the color

I posted this on my build of my '90 foxbody street car in dragracing models and I thought it would be fitting to post it here as well. This happens right before I go pick up my new vega panel tube chassis car.... Last night's racing was horrible. The outside temp was about 106 degrees and the track temp was over 120. At that point all the rubber on the track makes it greasy and real slick where even the super gas dragsters doing 300 foot burnouts couldn't get down the track. The race was one my local track Champion Raceway holds every year called the "night of fire." The useless jet dragsters come out, fuel altered come out, and many racers from other areas in division 6 come out for the chance to win a wally. Finally around 8:00 the air was getting better, the track temp dropped, and some good racing was starting to happen. At about 9:30 right as the sun set, two fuel altereds lined up. In the right lane, the best tranny guy in southern Oregon, the Dave Hicks high tech transmission car driven by someone else, and the high heaven fuel altered in the left lane. The High Heaven altered had the original chassis, body, and wing from 1974. When it was restored, everything was painted like one of the original schemes and a similar truck tall deck 427 BBC was used with all new aftermarket internals and a new littlefield 6-71 and an enderle hat like the original. I decided to video tape the run and what happened next was both spectacular and horrid, I'm not sure which comes first. The High heaven car launched and took a right turn for a date with the other car or the wall. luckily, the High tech transmission car hooked and got out of there. High heaven hit the wall and blew the whole front end out of it, the car slid around and the throttle stuck with it heading back towards the starting line where the crew, starter, racers and more were standing. After hitting who knows maybe 12000 Rpm's the big block grenaded which was actually a good thing. Here's the video I shot and posted to youtube, I hope the link works http://youtu.be/XEbnMu8YIkQ I got yelled at by the crew for trying to take pictures of the aftermath in the pits (which was really stupid because we're all dragracers who love the sport and want to see the aftermath of when some thing goes wrong) heres one I managed to get, it isn't very good because of the glare but you you can see how bent the chassis is and the whole supercharger itself is broken from the explosion, the only thing that kept it on the car was the safety straps

Last night's racing was horrible. The outside temp was about 106 degrees and the track temp was over 120. At that point all the rubber on the track makes it greasy and real slick where even the super gas dragsters doing 300 foot burnouts couldn't get down the track. The race was one my local track Champion Raceway holds every year called the "night of fire." The useless jet dragsters come out, fuel altered come out, and many racers from other areas in division 6 come out for the chance to win a wally. Finally around 8:00 the air was getting better, the track temp dropped, and some good racing was starting to happen. At about 9:30 right as the sun set, two fuel altereds lined up. In the right lane, the best tranny guy in southern Oregon, the Dave Hicks high tech transmission car driven by someone else, and the high heaven fuel altered in the left lane. The High Heaven altered had the original chassis, body, and wing from 1974. When it was restored, everything was painted like one of the original schemes and a similar truck tall deck 427 BBC was used with all new aftermarket internals and a new littlefield 6-71 and an enderle hat like the original. I decided to video tape the run and what happened next was both spectacular and horrid, I'm not sure which comes first. The High heaven car launched and took a right turn for a date with the other car or the wall. luckily, the High tech transmission car hooked and got out of there. High heaven hit the wall and blew the whole front end out of it, the car slid around and the throttle stuck with it heading back towards the starting line where the crew, starter, racers and more were standing. After hitting who knows maybe 12000 Rpm's the big block grenaded which was actually a good thing. Here's the video I shot and posted to youtube, I hope the link works http://youtu.be/XEbnMu8YIkQ I got yelled at by the crew for trying to take pictures of the aftermath in the pits (which was really stupid because we're all dragracers who love the sport and want to see the aftermath of when some thing goes wrong) heres one I managed to get, it isn't very good because of the glare but you you can see how bent the chassis is and the whole supercharger itself is broken from the explosion, the only thing that kept it on the car was the safety straps

Sorry about the no update today, spent too much time messing with the pos Holley 670 street avenger with my dad on his '70 ElCamino SS396, those things are not fun to tune and an off idle stumble plagues these new carbs, we then headed out to the dragstrip which I'll post the video tomorrow was a sad day of racing, the track was greasy, nothing could make a clean pass down the track and two crashes Involving fuel altered's happened to sum it up, one crash was real BAD! Video to come tomorrow....

Well I lied, this update came sooner than expected. I heard about the acme license plate maker and I though I would give it a try, I printed out some test plates until I found the size that works with 1/25 scale and made a few The "bone stock" came from what my dad had on his '89 supercharged 5.0 lx that he had in Washington so I thought the plate would be fitting

I also threw some hood pin decals on the hood The next update I'll have the engine ignition system finished and I'll be starting on the fuel plumbing

The motor plate looks good Scott, nice work

Thanks for the information, I think this is the best rattle can paint job I've produced with a rattle can so far, I feel like my skills are really starting to show the more I paint. I got the mirrors on, the taillight assembly on, the body decaled, and the windows to be glued in soon

The spoiler looks great Chris, keep plugging along at it

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time on here, you have to finish it

The dash looks like great, nice scratch building Stan

Thanks Stan, I've got the stance realistic for being a street car, where it could clear speed bumps and such This is the stance I was shooting for I appreciate it Jeff, I think for never have used an airbrush in my life (mainly because of the high cost to get set up) I have been turning out some mediocre stuff with a rattle can

I think BMF would actually work really good, I got this rust oleum orange tape from walmart and it seems to be okay, other than the pulling of my clear coat off the roof. Ask around some more with some pro painters to see what they use. Fortunately, I had no problems this go around with the trim

Thanks, this is the reason I don't normally build new cars, this trim stuff sucks

Today I'll get the driver side window trim painted, the passenger side came out pretty nice only requiring a few touchups with the brush

Here's just a mockup to see where stance is at

What caster did you get the supercharger and hat from?

What brand is that paint? Stunning paintwork Stan